title: Answer to comment on "sleep quality, arousal and pain thresholds in migraineurs: a blinded controlled polysomnographic study".
abstract: We discuss the comments on our article "Sleep quality, arousal and pain thresholds in migraineurs. A blinded controlled polysomnographic study" published in JHP 2013 Feb 14;14(1):12. We hypothesize that migraineurs need more sleep than healthy controls and more sleep than they manage to achieve. Some migraineurs probably have a decreased ability to process incoming stimuli. Increased spontaneous pain may follow either sleep restriction or sleep disturbance. A comparison of migraineurs with attack onset related to sleep, migraineurs with attack onset not related to sleep and controls will be reported in another paper.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, PB 8905, MTFS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, N-7489, Norway. morten.engstrom@ntnu.no.
authors.forename: Morten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Engstrøm
authors.forename: Knut
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hagen
authors.forename: Marte
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bjørk
authors.forename: Trond
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sand
mesh_terms: D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017288:Pain Threshold / Q000502:physiology*; D017286:Polysomnography; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*